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Cuba's a hole. Vietnam gets $38 billion in trade from the US, otherwise it'd be a hole too. So the difference appears to be who gets money from the capitalists -- perhaps Communism isn't a turd, but a tick?
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No, as someone from the member states of Warsaw pact it really is a turd. A great, big, nauseating disgusting turd with fatal effects from being merely within the same area code as it.